Family Haemulidae Gill 1885 (Fig. 5B). Grunts, Porkfishes, Salemas; Roncadores, Burros, Salemas, Tenientes, Corocoros, Roncos, Viejas, Corcovados Description: Body oblong, compressed; up to 75 cm in length; mouth relatively small, usually with thick lips; teeth on jaws usually cardiform, generally absent on vomer; a pair of conspicuous pores plus (in almost all genera) a central groove under the chin; scales rough, over entire body and head, except in the front of the snout, lips and chin; dorsal fin continuous, with 9–14 spines and 11–26 soft rays; anal fin with three spines and 6–18 soft rays; caudal fin concave to forked (Robertson & Allen 2015, Nelson et al. 2016). Distribution: Marine (many in brackish water, rarely in freshwaters); Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans (Nelson et al. 2016). Four genera and six species in Nicaraguan freshwaters.

Published as part of Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, pp. 1-89 in Zootaxa 5376 (1) on page 74, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5376.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10208788